Chapter Summaries

Li Ziran fought Silver Zombies inside a fleshy tunnel but found that the living flesh walls weakened his defenses and trapped him. Unable to find a way to threaten the hidden races, he left with Jin Potter and headed to Hippo Ancient City to seek an old friend.

• Li Ziran used Light power to destroy a Silver Zombie, but another ambushed him and a growing swarm forced him into the tunnels.
• The flesh walls trapped Li Ziran, weakened his tide, and produced more Silver Zombies that bit and crowded him.
• Li Ziran unleashed light to clear a path through the flesh and escaped the tunnel with Jin Potter.
• Li Ziran told Jin Potter what he had encountered, and they worried that the Silver Zombies and other underground races could thwart their plan.
• Li Ziran left for Hippo Ancient City to find an old friend.

Chapter Summary: “Six Flavors House’s Little Secret”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran explores the ruins of Hippo Ancient City after the Tide’s catastrophic destruction. The city’s inhabitants, including the giant centipedes, have been reduced to reddish powder, while the ancient city walls remain almost completely undamaged.
• He notices that Christie’s Auction House, located at the city’s center, has also survived untouched, suggesting that both the city and the auction house possess extraordinary origins or defenses.
• Li Ziran visits Six Flavors House, hoping its mysterious old proprietor can help him deal with the writhing flesh membrane and the Zombie underground.
• Finding the gates open and the courtyard undisturbed, Li Ziran waits for the old man. When the man does not appear, he ventures upstairs with what seems to be silent permission.
• Activating the powers of Faith World and Nature World causes him to trigger a strange restriction. He is pulled into a boundless realm of darkness, cold, and apparent endless falling.
• His body’s flesh membranes begin to deteriorate under the cold, forcing him to suppress the power of both worlds. Once he does so, the darkness disappears and the familiar corridor returns.
• The old man reveals that Li Ziran experienced a simulated version of the Void Expanse—not the true Void Expanse, but the old man’s personal understanding of it.
• Li Ziran asks to entrust Six Flavors House with a deal. The old man insists that the house only handles ordinary services and refuses to openly participate in combat or killing, though he hints that he may assist with gatherings or other limited matters.
• Li Ziran offers to negotiate and accepts that he must provide something of value in exchange for the old man’s help.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran demonstrates greater power and awareness than before, possessing two chains and controlling both Faith World and Nature World. However, the Six Flavors House restriction exposes the limits of his abilities.
• He becomes more cautious and calculating. Rather than reveal his full plan, he carefully frames his request as a business transaction and recognizes that the old man’s goodwill likely depends on Li Ziran’s usefulness.
• The old man of Six Flavors House is shown to be far more powerful and knowledgeable than he pretends. He can create or reproduce an experience resembling the Void Expanse and appears to monitor events across the Red Soil Continent.
• The old man maintains his deliberately humble, evasive persona, describing Six Flavors House as a place for mundane services despite possessing extraordinary abilities and secrets.

Significant Themes

• Destruction versus endurance: Hippo Ancient City’s living population is annihilated, yet its structures remain intact, emphasizing the persistence of ancient powers and civilizations.
• Hidden strength beneath ordinary appearances: Christie’s Auction House and Six Flavors House appear mundane or restrained, but both possess defenses and origins far beyond Li Ziran’s understanding.
• Knowledge and control of the Void: The simulated Void Expanse introduces the terrifying scale of forces beyond ordinary reality and suggests that the old man has reached a level of understanding few others possess.
• Transactional relationships: Li Ziran realizes that protection and assistance are not given freely. Trust and goodwill are tied to usefulness, value, and negotiated exchange.
• Limits of power: Even with two worlds and significant growth, Li Ziran can still be overwhelmed by forces he does not understand. Survival depends on restraint and adaptability, not merely strength.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran’s interaction with the old man is marked by familiarity, mutual caution, and hidden negotiation. The old man teasingly points out that Li Ziran has not yet achieved his goal, implying awareness of his struggles.
• The old man refuses to commit directly to violence, while Li Ziran tries to persuade him that the requested assistance does not technically involve fighting.
• Their conversation establishes a relationship based neither on simple friendship nor hostility, but on mutual usefulness. Li Ziran hopes his own value will be enough to secure the old man’s help.

Chapter Summary: “Scenery Beyond the Window”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran proposes doing business with the old man at Six Flavors House, hoping to obtain help dealing with powerful laborers. The old man studies him before bluntly stating that Li Ziran is not yet qualified to do business with him.
• When Li Ziran asks for assistance, the old man refuses. Accepting the rejection, Li Ziran prepares to leave and considers seeking help from Panda at Christie's Auction House instead, despite the risks of involving an insider.
• Before Li Ziran leaves, the old man reminds him that he has possessed a private room at Six Flavors House for years. Realizing this may be a hidden opportunity, Li Ziran returns upstairs.
• He enters a seemingly ordinary, ancient corridor lined with numbered wooden doors and eventually discovers his private room, Room 036.
• The room contains only an old table, two benches, and a damaged window. At first, Li Ziran cannot understand why the old man directed him there.
• When he examines the window, he discovers that the view beyond it is not the courtyard or the city, but the pitch-black Void Expanse, filled with distant lights and drifting creatures.
• A spiked, moth-like creature in a damaged cloak attempts to reach the window, using a Void Coin to strengthen its protection. Later, a bat-like creature crashes into the glass.
• Li Ziran decides to open the window despite his hesitation. A powerful force surges through the opening, blasting the bat into the wall. Instead of attacking, the bat desperately warns him to close the window and prevent “them” from entering.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran shows insecurity about his current abilities and status. He recognizes that, despite possessing extraordinary power, he has not yet mastered enough of it to be considered valuable by the old man.
• He also demonstrates dignity and self-control by accepting the refusal without pleading or exploiting their friendship.
• His cautious nature is balanced by a growing willingness to take risks. Rather than remain paralyzed by uncertainty, he opens the window, choosing action over endless hesitation.
• The old man remains mysterious and indirect. Although he refuses to help Li Ziran openly, his reminder about the private room suggests that he is guiding Li Ziran toward another source of information or opportunity.
• The creatures outside the window reveal that survival in the Void Expanse is difficult even for its inhabitants, who rely on Void Coins and protective clothing or barriers.

Significant Themes

• Qualification and self-worth: Li Ziran confronts the gap between possessing potential power and being truly capable of using it.
• Business, trust, and risk: The conversation frames relationships as exchanges of value, while Li Ziran must decide how much to risk with both the old man and Panda.
• Indirect guidance: The old man’s refusal may actually be a form of instruction, forcing Li Ziran to discover the next step himself.
• Fear versus decisiveness: Li Ziran repeatedly hesitates when faced with the unknown, but ultimately realizes that excessive caution can cause him to miss vital opportunities.
• The hidden nature of reality: The ordinary private room conceals a window into the Void Expanse, emphasizing that familiar places may connect to far stranger and more dangerous realms.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and the old man engage in a tense but restrained negotiation. The old man dismisses Li Ziran’s business proposal and request for help, but subtly directs him toward Room 036.
• Li Ziran interprets the old man’s actions and tries to infer whether the private room is meant to provide access to information about the laborers.
• Li Ziran has no direct conversation with the Void creatures, but his interaction with them begins when he opens the window. The bat’s urgent warning implies that opening the window may have endangered both Li Ziran and the surrounding world.
  The chapter ends on a cliffhanger as the bat urges Li Ziran to shut the window before unknown entities enter.

Li Ziran fought Goudra, a Void Vampire who had sneaked into his room and tried to feed on him, while studying the creature’s strange regenerative nature. The chapter ended with Li Ziran trapping Goudra’s soul in a Radiant Sealing Spell.

• Li Ziran and the bat shut the window against a swarm of creatures from the Void Expanse, and the bat transformed into a young man named Goudra.
• Goudra demanded Void Coins, then revealed that he had identified Li Ziran as a fledgling and demanded his blood instead.
• Goudra attacked Li Ziran with his wings and strange vibrations, but Li Ziran repeatedly destroyed his body with natural elements as Goudra regenerated.
• Li Ziran realized Goudra’s speed depended on wind and that his body regenerated from a mysterious darkness, and he decided to study the vampire’s origin essence.
• Li Ziran used a Radiant Sealing Spell to bind Goudra’s insubstantial soul as the vampire lunged for his throat.

Li Ziran studied a vampire’s memories and learned that Void Baptism fused origin essence with void elements, producing mutated powers he could suppress but not destroy. After leaving his room to think, he opened door 078 and witnessed a blue-stone giant lose both arms to the Void Expanse before the old man hurried over.

• Li Ziran tortured the vampire, tasted its origin essence, and examined memories of its life and transformation.
• Li Ziran concluded that void elements mutated when fused with origin essence and that he needed to understand them to overcome the laborers’ defenses.
• Li Ziran hesitated to enter the Void Expanse and left his room to clear his mind.
• Li Ziran opened door 078 and saw a blue-stone woman lunge into the corridor, where her arms expanded into the Void Expanse.
• The Void Expanse evaporated the woman’s arms, and the man inside pulled her back as the old man hurried toward Li Ziran.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran’s impulsive action inside Six Flavors House violates a serious taboo, forcing the old waiter to placate the Giants behind a wooden door by sacrificing more than a hundred Void Coins.
• The incident reveals to Li Ziran that even the seemingly powerful old man is subject to Six Flavors House’s rules and can be punished or threatened by its inhabitants.
• After leaving the corridor, Li Ziran questions the old man about his identity. The old man confirms that he is merely a waiter and admits that he chose to abandon his power in order to return to the Red Soil Continent and survive in a stable environment.
• Li Ziran proposes that the old man leave Six Flavors House and follow him into the Void Expanse. The old man refuses, warning that Li Ziran underestimates both Six Flavors House and the dangers of the Void Expanse.
• Li Ziran insists that the old man has not truly surrendered, since he brought Li Ziran to the Void Expanse and carefully guided him for reasons beyond simple friendship.
• To demonstrate his sincerity and ambition, Li Ziran reveals that he wants to obtain enough power and resources to contend for control of a continent, ultimately aiming to fuse the eight great elements.
• He presents his theory that the Red Soil Continent is itself a living entity whose core emits powerful elements, including rare “Ultimate Elements.” He believes the Void Expanse powerhouses are trying to seize the continent because its core may enable them to transform or break through their current limitations.
• Li Ziran further explains his plan to obtain the organs of powerful Ancient Clans, which he believes contain elemental “chains.” By collecting eight complete chains and fusing them, he hopes to imitate the Red Soil Continent’s transformation and achieve a similar evolution.
• The old man is shocked by the audacity of this plan but also impressed and encouraged. Li Ziran recognizes that he has begun to move the old man.
• The chapter ends with Li Ziran quoting an old saying about an aging horse still aspiring to travel a thousand miles, challenging the old man’s belief that he is too old and weak to return to the Void Expanse.

2. Character Developments

Li Ziran

• Shows greater awareness of the dangers and power hierarchy within Six Flavors House.
• Demonstrates strategic thinking, emotional insight, and unusual boldness. Rather than trying to persuade the old man with superficial promises, he uses complete sincerity and reveals his most ambitious goals.
• His ambitions expand from simply surviving and developing himself to claiming a continent, fusing the eight elements, and reproducing the Red Soil Continent’s transformation.
• He also reveals a ruthless side, openly proposing to hunt powerful Ancient Clans and use their organs for his own evolution.

The old man

• Is exposed as a former powerhouse who has fallen into the role of a low-ranking waiter after abandoning his strength.
• Although he claims to prefer stability and old age, his pride and former fighting spirit remain intact; the “sparks” in his eyes show that he has not truly surrendered.
• He is burdened by past defeats and fears ridicule or another failure in the Void Expanse. Li Ziran’s proposal begins to awaken his dormant ambition.

3. Significant Themes

• Survival versus ambition: The old man chose safety and stability, while Li Ziran argues that survival without pursuing one’s true desires is a form of surrender.
• The persistence of pride and hope: Age, defeat, and humiliation have weakened the old man’s confidence but have not extinguished his former spirit.
• Sincerity as a means of winning allies: Li Ziran believes powerful people cannot be swayed by empty promises; only complete honesty and the revelation of one’s deepest ambitions can earn their respect.
• Transformation and imitation: The Red Soil Continent serves as a model for evolution. Li Ziran seeks to reproduce its elemental structure within himself by combining eight chains.
• Power and exploitation: The chapter presents advancement as requiring the appropriation of other beings’ power, particularly through the organs and elemental structures of the Ancient Clans.
• The hidden nature of the world: The Red Soil Continent may be a living entity rather than merely land, suggesting that the boundaries between creatures, worlds, and elemental systems are fluid.

4. Character Interactions

• Li Ziran witnesses the old man’s submission to Six Flavors House and gains a deeper understanding of his hidden circumstances.
• Their conversation shifts from suspicion and disappointment to negotiation and mutual revelation.
• The old man repeatedly warns Li Ziran against underestimating the Void Expanse, while Li Ziran challenges his self-imposed resignation.
• Li Ziran’s disclosure of his plans changes the old man’s attitude: he moves from dismissing Li Ziran as inexperienced to recognizing him as dangerously ambitious and potentially worthy of support.
• The chapter concludes with Li Ziran attempting to rekindle the old man’s courage and persuade him to return to the struggle of the Void Expanse.

Chapter Summary: “Dissecting the Six Flavors House Elder”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran asks the elderly Six Flavors House attendant for special assistance in understanding the Void Chains, but the old man initially refuses because of the House’s rules and doubts Li Ziran’s lack of experience.
• The old man brings Li Ziran into his private room, where he unexpectedly volunteers to be dissected. He explains that directly examining his body will allow Li Ziran to study the unique structure of Voidspace organs.
• Li Ziran uses a Light Blade to open the old man’s skull and chest. Instead of ordinary organs, he discovers empty cavities filled with black, dumbbell-like structures connected by slender rods.
• The old man permits Li Ziran to introduce Natural Elements into his body. The energy causes him severe pain, but it combines with the black structures and reveals a hidden, meridian-like network running through his body.
• Li Ziran realizes that the Void Expanse contains systems that cannot be perceived through ordinary sight or conventional energy theories. He struggles to understand how these invisible structures function.
• Following the elder’s guidance, Li Ziran abandons his preconceived ideas about energy and considers whether memory itself might create or reveal structures within Nothingness.
• Unable to directly grasp Void energy, he develops a new approach: using Natural Elements to transform and trace Voidspace Elements.
• He fuses Natural Elements with Void Coins, producing a gray energy marked by decay and ruin. When he introduces this into the elder’s chest, a mysterious network appears in his mind, suggesting that he has begun to perceive the Void’s underlying principles.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran demonstrates courage, curiosity, and exceptional adaptability. He does not hesitate to undertake the dangerous dissection once he understands its importance.
• His thinking evolves from trying to force Void Chains into the frameworks of the Nature World and Faith World to recognizing that Void energy requires an entirely different conceptual approach.
• Li Ziran begins to understand the importance of discarding fixed assumptions while preserving a productive line of inquiry.
• The old man is revealed to be far more knowledgeable and self-sacrificing than his outward appearance suggests. Although he refuses to directly help Li Ziran, he creates an opportunity for genuine understanding by offering his own body for examination.
• The elder acts as a teacher, providing carefully timed hints rather than giving Li Ziran the answer outright. His confidence in Li Ziran grows as he sees how quickly the younger man grasps each suggestion.

Significant Themes

• Learning through experience: True comprehension comes from investigation and experimentation rather than receiving direct instruction.
• Breaking free from preconceptions: Li Ziran must empty his mind of established ideas about organs, energy, and chains before he can approach the Void.
• The nature of Nothingness: The chapter explores the paradox that the apparently empty Void contains hidden structures, pathways, and systems that cannot be detected through ordinary senses.
• Pain and sacrifice in pursuit of knowledge: The old man endures intense suffering to help Li Ziran progress, emphasizing the cost of deeper understanding.
• Transformation and fusion: The combination of Natural and Void Elements suggests that new forms of power arise through the interaction of fundamentally different energies.

Character Interactions

• The old man initially rejects Li Ziran’s request, citing the rules of Six Flavors House and warning that youth and ambition do not guarantee survival.
• In private, he reverses course indirectly, allowing Li Ziran to dissect and study him while insisting that this is not “special help” but an opportunity for Li Ziran to use his own abilities.
• During the examination, the elder tolerates extreme pain and repeatedly encourages Li Ziran to continue.
• Through brief but insightful guidance, he pushes Li Ziran to abandon conventional assumptions, recognize the importance of elemental characteristics, and experiment with fusion.
• Their relationship develops into one of mentor and student, though the elder teaches through challenges and hints rather than explicit explanations.

Chapter Summary: “Thrown into the Void Expanse”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran studies the old man’s internal “Void Chains,” gaining a detailed understanding of how Void Elements are absorbed, converted, and distributed through the body.
• He realizes that Void Elements are not inherently destructive. In controlled amounts, they can promote biological mutation and growth, but excessive Void energy can consume a creature’s Origin Essence.
• The old man opens the window of the Six Flavors House, attracting starving creatures from the Void Expanse: a vampire, a Savage Bull, and a spiked insect.
• He demonstrates how Dragon Marks filter Void Elements, allowing only a controlled amount to merge with Natural Elements and transform the body.
• Using a whip, the old man extracts the Void Elements from the vampire, reducing it from a Void creature to an ordinary, dying vampire. The Savage Bull and insect are similarly overwhelmed and killed.
• The old man orders Li Ziran to enter the Void Expanse and attempt the same process himself.
• Li Ziran hesitates, frightened by the darkness and the destructive force of the Void. His Natural Elements are repeatedly devoured before he can control them.
• Impatient, the old man kicks Li Ziran out of the window, forcing him into the Void Expanse.
• Exposed to the freezing Nothingness, Li Ziran loses his footing and begins drifting away from the house. He realizes that the Void Expanse strips away warmth and energy, explaining the creatures’ desperation to reach the lighted house.
• Rather than surrender to panic, Li Ziran recalls the old man’s demonstration and begins analyzing how to reproduce the process using his own abilities. He lacks Dragon Marks but believes his Light Elements and two complete Elemental Chains may serve as substitutes.

Character Development

• Li Ziran: His fear of Void Elements gradually changes into intellectual curiosity and determination. Although initially overwhelmed and hesitant, he begins treating the crisis as an experiment, relying on observation, logic, and confidence in his own Elemental Chains.
• The old man: He is revealed to be extremely powerful and knowledgeable about the Void Expanse. His teaching method is harsh and deliberately dangerous, prioritizing forced practical experience over explanation. Despite appearing frail, he easily defeats multiple Void creatures.
• The Void creatures: The vampire, Savage Bull, and insect are portrayed as desperate predators driven by hunger. Their vulnerability to the old man emphasizes the terrifying power of controlled Void energy.

Significant Themes

• Knowledge versus experience: Understanding the structure of Void Chains is not enough; Li Ziran must personally use Void Elements to truly master them.
• Control within destruction: Void Elements can annihilate life or strengthen it depending on dosage and regulation.
• Fear and adaptation: The Void Expanse represents overwhelming uncertainty, but Li Ziran begins to overcome fear by observing and analyzing it.
• Harsh mentorship: The old man’s brutal methods suggest that survival in the Void requires direct confrontation with danger rather than cautious preparation.
• Light as hope: The house’s light becomes a symbol of safety and life within the endless darkness, attracting creatures that would otherwise perish.

Character Interactions

• The old man recognizes that Li Ziran has understood the internal Void Chains and demonstrates the process for him.
• Li Ziran carefully watches the old man’s manipulation of Dragon Marks, Natural Elements, and Void Elements, asking whether Void Elements can be drawn out by a stronger force.
• The old man dismisses Li Ziran’s hesitation and repeatedly urges him to use his spiritual power like a mage.
• When Li Ziran remains too cautious, the old man physically kicks him into the Void Expanse, forcing him to act.
• Alone in the darkness but still observed from the window, Li Ziran turns the old man’s cruel lesson into an opportunity to test his own powers.

Li Ziran used the vampire’s memories and Void Coins to form a nascent Void Chain that eased the Void Expanse’s energy from consuming him. As he explored the chain’s world-making power, he lost himself in its spirals until the old man’s voice and whip pulled him back.

• Li Ziran studied the vampire’s memories and learned that three Void Coins had fused with the vampire’s blood during his void baptism.
• Li Ziran broke open a Void Coin in the Void Expanse and combined its energy with light and nature energy to create a protective spiral membrane.
• Li Ziran added more Void Coins and formed a black double-helical model that he recognized as the beginning of a Void Chain.
• Li Ziran immersed his awareness in the spirals and discovered he could assemble them into anything, including a version of the Six Flavors House and a continent.
• Li Ziran forgot who he was and began merging with the spirals until the old man shouted at him and struck him with a whip, tearing him away from the union.

Li Ziran lost himself in the Void Expanse and unleashed a three-colored energy that threatened the Six Flavors House. After the old man sacrificed the House’s core crystal to dispel the darkness, Li Ziran awakened and rescued him from the Void Expanse.

• Li Ziran’s Void Spirit Evolution produced a black Goat and a Frog Formation, and the old man realized Li Ziran had mistaken him for an enemy.
• Li Ziran’s Void Extinction overwhelmed the old man and began crushing the Six Flavors House, so the old man transformed the fortress into a stone giant to suppress him.
• A three-colored energy surged from Li Ziran’s core, destroying the stone giant and devouring the Six Flavors House as its customers fled.
• The old man shattered the Hexagram Formation and released the House’s core crystal, whose light dispelled Li Ziran’s darkness but left the old man exposed to the Void Expanse.
• Li Ziran woke and wrapped the helpless old man in warmth as gold, green, and black layers pulsed around him.

Li Ziran discovered that Void Elements had formed a unique third chain in his body and learned that Christie's auctioneer was essential to his plan to sell newly cultivated bodies. With Goni's help, he stripped the Blood Sunflower of its Void Energy, leaving the silver zombies exposed to the tides.

• Li Ziran used the three tides to protect himself from the Void Expanse and realized that Void Elements had formed a unique chain within his body.
• Goni warned Li Ziran that he needed to win the attention of the auctioneer at Christie's before the upcoming auction, and Li Ziran agreed to proceed with his plan.
• Li Ziran and Goni teleported to the Tidal Rift, where Jin Potter asked whether Li Ziran had found a solution to the ancient corpses.
• Goni explained that the silver zombies were protected by a Blood Sunflower whose voidblood allowed them to operate in the Red Soil Continent.
• Li Ziran purified the Blood Sunflower and drew the Void Energy out of it, causing the fortress to collapse and the exposed silver zombies to melt.

Li Ziran explored the Red Soil Continent’s deep underground and Great Trench, then used the Void World to draw in void elements and destroy the creatures’ habitats. After Goni pulled him out of a dangerous trance, Li Ziran learned that only the Black Dragons remained and decided to clear them out despite his friendship with their Lord.

• Li Ziran and Goni discovered strange underground laborers whose protective shells had been stripped, and Li Ziran considered whether their bodies could replace workers.
• At the Great Trench, Li Ziran entered the Void World and formed gravity that pulled in void elements, causing the trench to sink and mutated serpents to burst apart at the surface.
• Goni repeatedly rang Li Ziran’s Light Crystal until Li Ziran woke, though Li Ziran briefly forgot who Goni was.
• Li Ziran asked how many tribes remained, and Goni said only the Black Dragons were left and that they had ties to Li Ziran.
• Li Ziran ordered Goni to clear out the Black Dragons, and Goni explained that their protective shell was a magma pool hiding a true Void Expanse shell beneath it.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran and Goni continue disrupting the Red Soil Continent by draining the Void Elements hidden beneath its magma. This destabilizes the continent’s core and causes the Elemental Tide to become catastrophically chaotic.
• Black Dragon Lords are forced out of their underground Dungeon. Most are destroyed when their internal Void power is exposed to the violent tide, though one unusually adapted Black Dragon survives.
• Li Ziran’s repeated use of the Void Expanse severely strains his body. The continent increasingly rejects him, and his Void Chains are rapidly forming. Knowing he may soon be unable to enter the continent again, he insists on continuing so he can seize as much profit as possible.
• The chaos spreads across the continent: the Agate Great Wasteland is flooded, the Ice Plains erupt into flames and volcanic ash, and Hippo Ancient City is struck by magma and violent environmental changes.
• Refugees gather at Christie’s Auction House, whose protective barrier shields them from the magma. A Stonefolk associated with the Giant race arrives and carelessly kicks magma into the crowd, injuring fleeing creatures.
• The Stonefolk confronts Cat Three, the Panda guarding the auction house, accusing the laborers of exhausting the continent and asking whether they caused the tidal disaster. Cat Three remains defiant but explains that the disturbance began seven days earlier and may indicate that the continent’s core has been disturbed.
• The Stonefolk investigates personally. Revealing himself as a massive Jade Giant, he moves through the chaotic tide unharmed and destroys Spatial Mantises and Spiral-Horned Goats, believing them responsible for the disruption. The tide begins stabilizing around him.
• Jin Potter warns that if the Giant continues, Li Ziran’s entire operation and the planned auction of shells will fail.
• Goni explains that Jade Giants are nearly immune to elemental attacks and can only be defeated by overwhelming physical strength. Li Ziran realizes that directly confronting the Giant would expose him and instead considers removing the Void Elements from the Giant’s body to weaken him.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran becomes increasingly desperate and reckless. He recognizes that his body is transforming into that of a void creature and that he has only a limited window to profit from the continent before it rejects him completely.
• His determination is mixed with physical and mental deterioration: repeated dives into nothingness worsen his disorientation, mood instability, and bodily strain.
• Goni continues acting as Li Ziran’s protector and adviser. He monitors Li Ziran’s condition, explains the Jade Giant’s abilities, and warns him against revealing himself.
• Cat Three demonstrates confidence and institutional loyalty. He refuses to accept blame for the continent’s suffering and invokes his official registration and Christie’s authority to resist the Giant’s intimidation.
• The Jade Giant is shown to be powerful, arrogant, and destructive. He assumes lesser creatures are responsible for the crisis and kills them without investigation, though his actions unintentionally begin restoring order.
• Jin Potter becomes increasingly anxious as the Giant threatens the survival of the subordinates and the success of the shell auction.

Significant Themes

• Recklessness and urgency: Li Ziran knowingly endangers himself because he believes rare opportunities must be seized before they disappear.
• Power and exploitation: The continent is treated as a resource by Christie’s Auction House and the four races, while its laborers and inhabitants suffer devastating consequences.
• Environmental destruction: The draining of Void Elements produces continent-wide disasters, suggesting that interference with natural or foundational forces has uncontrollable consequences.
• Class and institutional indifference: Cat Three’s remark that he only cares whether the auction house survives highlights the detachment of powerful organizations from the suffering outside their walls.
• Adaptation and survival: The surviving Black Dragon, Li Ziran’s transformation, and the Jade Giant’s immunity all show different forms of adaptation to the Void and its changing conditions.
• Intelligence versus brute force: The Jade Giant can overpower nearly everything physically, but Li Ziran must rely on strategy rather than direct combat.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Goni: Goni worries about Li Ziran’s worsening condition, while Li Ziran dismisses rest and insists on continuing the operation.
• Cat Three and the Jade Giant: Their exchange contrasts bureaucratic confidence with physical intimidation. Cat Three refuses to be bullied and redirects the Giant toward investigating the tide himself.
• The Jade Giant and the creatures in the wasteland: He mistakes Spatial Mantises and Spiral-Horned Goats for the cause of the chaos and brutally destroys them.
• Li Ziran, Goni, and Jin Potter: They jointly assess the threat posed by the Giant. Jin Potter focuses on the danger to their operation, Goni explains the Giant’s abilities, and Li Ziran begins formulating a way to neutralize him without exposing himself.

Li Ziran and Goni entered Li Ziran’s void world to drive the Jade Giant away, entrusting Anfuni with Goni’s soul mark so she could wake them if they failed to return. Inside, Goni discovered that Li Ziran’s void world contained rapidly forming spiral structures and a distant shape that seemed to be the Jade Giant’s void world.

• Li Ziran insisted that Goni reveal a way to wake him from the void world, and Goni explained that someone would need to control his soul mark.
• Li Ziran went with Goni to the rainforest and found Anfuni and Ke'er, then asked Anfuni to help them.
• Li Ziran gave Anfuni Goni’s soul mark and told her to activate it if the Jade Giant fell or fled; Goni added a five-minute deadline.
• Li Ziran and Goni entered Li Ziran’s void world, where Goni observed strange spiral structures and a distant oval shape he suspected was the Jade Giant’s void world.

Chapter Summary: “Yes, Yes, Li Ziran, Devour Him”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Inside Li Ziran’s Void World, two immense formations collide: Li Ziran’s spiral-shaped Frog Star Cluster and an elliptical star cluster formed from mature Void Chains, apparently belonging to the Jade Giant.
• The elliptical cluster initially overwhelms Li Ziran’s Frog, gradually swallowing and incorporating half of it. Goni becomes emotionally invested in the Frog’s survival despite not understanding why.
• A Goat Star Cluster made of golden light suddenly appears. Its Gravity forces the elliptical cluster to release the devoured Frog, while the Goat and Frog together begin overpowering and tearing apart the Jade Giant’s formation.
• The conflict abruptly changes when the elliptical cluster mutates, turning crimson and collapsing into a dense, highly attractive mass. Its Gravity grows powerful enough to drag in the surrounding star clusters.
• The Goat and Frog deform under the pressure and merge into a tricolored sphere. Countless spirals compress into this shrinking sphere, dramatically increasing its density and Gravity.
• The newly formed black sphere begins devouring the crimson elliptical cluster. Goni celebrates, believing the spirals are winning and urging them to consume the enemy.
• Goni repeatedly tries to merge with the black sphere or attack the crimson cluster, but he passes through the structures and discovers that he cannot contribute. He realizes the Void World rejects him because he does not truly belong to it.
• As Goni attempts to charge into the crimson cluster, his Double Helix body collapses and rapidly changes into a humanoid form with limbs and a large belly. His memories return, revealing that he is a living being rather than a Void structure.
• Goni finally remembers his purpose: he must awaken Li Ziran. He realizes that the five-minute limit has elapsed.

Character Developments

• Goni: Initially confused and emotionally tied to the spiral formations, Goni gradually identifies with them and instinctively wants to help them defeat the Jade Giant. His inability to merge with the Void structures causes increasing frustration and desperation. The transformation back into a humanoid body restores his memories and sense of identity, allowing him to recognize that he is separate from the Void World and must wake Li Ziran.
• Li Ziran: Although largely absent physically, Li Ziran’s Void World and rapidly formed Frog Star Cluster demonstrate his extraordinary potential. Despite having encountered Void Chains for only a few days, his power can contend with an established Jade Giant.
• The Jade Giant: Represented by the mature elliptical Void formation, the Jade Giant initially dominates the battle but is eventually threatened by the combined Goat-Frog structure and its compressed black sphere.

Significant Themes

• Identity and belonging: Goni struggles to determine whether he is part of the Void World or an independent living being. His inability to merge with the spirals ultimately confirms his separate identity.
• Transformation and memory: Goni’s changing physical forms mirror the gradual recovery of his memories and true nature.
• Compression and power: The chapter emphasizes the relationship between shrinking volume, increasing density, and stronger Gravity. The black sphere becomes powerful because countless spirals are compressed into a tiny space.
• Creation through conflict: The collision of the Frog and Goat formations produces a new, more powerful structure, suggesting that destruction and fusion can lead to evolution.
• Time and urgency: Goni’s final realization that five minutes have passed gives the battle a critical deadline and shifts the focus toward waking Li Ziran.

Character Interactions

• Goni and Li Ziran: Goni’s thoughts center on protecting Li Ziran’s Void formation and ultimately fulfilling his duty to awaken him.
• Goni and the Void structures: Goni treats the Frog and Goat formations as if they are allies or extensions of himself, cheering for them and attempting to lend them strength. Their rejection of him becomes central to his identity crisis.
• Frog, Goat, and Jade Giant formations: The Frog initially faces annihilation, but the Goat intervenes and helps reverse the battle. Their subsequent fusion creates the black sphere that begins devouring the Jade Giant’s crimson formation.

Goni tried to awaken Li Ziran from the Void World by painfully stimulating his Soul Fragment, while Anfuni tapped Goni’s fragment in the outside world. Li Ziran regained his memories but chose to remain in the void and confront the opposing black speck, and Goni woke in his body without knowing what had happened to Li Ziran.

• Goni repeatedly tapped Li Ziran’s Soul Fragment to rouse his consciousness as the Void World’s black specks drew closer.
• Anfuni kept tapping Goni’s Soul Fragment on the snowy peak, but neither man initially woke.
• Li Ziran broke free of the Void World’s grip and told Goni his memories had returned, but said he would stay to devour the opposing void.
• Li Ziran’s figure became a Soul Fragment and vanished into Goni’s hand as the two black specks collided, leaving Goni unable to sense anything.
• Goni opened his eyes in his body, and a woman greeted him and asked what had happened to Li Ziran.

After Li Ziran’s attack destroyed the Jade Giant, he remained unconscious, and Anfuni and Goni sought a way to wake him while carrying out his plan. As the Tide’s effects spread across the continent, Snow appeared, identified as the Snow Woman Li Ziran had chosen.

• The Jade Giant disintegrated into jade rain, and Goni told Anfuni that Li Ziran had won but would not wake.
• Goni explained that soul pain had previously awakened Li Ziran, and Anfuni proposed using his emotional memories to reach him.
• Anfuni and Goni asked Jin Potter about Li Ziran’s plan to alter the Red Soil Continent and sell bodies to the Ancient Clans, but Jin knew only his own role in causing tidal chaos.
• A golden Great Dragon perished at the edge of the Tide, while an Azure Corpse fled after losing half its body as Li Ziran’s influence spread.
• Snow descended through the Tide, and Jin Potter recognized her as the Snow Woman Li Ziran had chosen.

Anfuni brought the sleeping Li Ziran to the elves and learned that Snow Woman was exploring the continent to carry out his plan against beings from the Void Expanse. At Christie's Auction House, Anfuni met Snow Woman, who mistook her for someone able to supply Li Ziran's bodies and eagerly offered to buy them.

• Anfuni recognized Snow as the woman Li Ziran had chosen and took Goni and Jin Potter through a teleportation array to the elven realm.
• Queen Ke'er welcomed the sleeping Li Ziran into her tree house, while Anfuni explained that they needed to meet Snow and prepare for a dangerous task involving the Void Expanse.
• Anfuni watched Snow travel across the continent and learned from Jin Potter that Snow was heading to Christie's Auction House to buy bodies Li Ziran had left there.
• Anfuni and Jin Potter reached Hippo Ancient City, where Anfuni entered Christie's Auction House and found Snow and its owner, Cat Three.
• Cat Three gave Anfuni a Black Bar holding Li Ziran's earnings of forty-five thousand Void Coins from five bodies, and Snow pleaded with Anfuni to sell her more or take her to Li Ziran.

Anfuni negotiated with the Snow Woman to buy one hundred of Li Ziran’s bodies, using a tight deadline and claiming she had them in stock. After Jin Potter revealed her Black Bar held 45,000 Void Coins—enough to buy fifty derivative spaces—Anfuni realized she had promised goods whose location she did not know.

• Anfuni brought the Snow Woman to the Elves' derivative space, where the Snow Woman insisted she only wanted to buy Li Ziran’s bodies.
• Anfuni claimed she controlled the bodies and offered one hundred for sale, though she did not know where they were stored.
• The Snow Woman agreed to buy all one hundred at a markup of ten thousand Void Coins per body and demanded the deal be completed within one day.
• After the Snow Woman left, Jin Potter identified Anfuni’s Black Bar as a Christie's Auction House account containing 45,000 Void Coins, worth fifty derivative spaces.
• Anfuni realized she had no idea where Li Ziran’s stock was and worried she would be unable to fulfill the deal.

Anfuni refused to surrender Li Ziran’s Void Coins to Ke’er and asked for help finding the bodies he had hidden. Ke’er used Origin Collision to enter Li Ziran’s soul and returned with the location, but Goni feared the experience had profoundly changed her.

• Ke’er asked Anfuni to hand over Li Ziran’s Void Coins, but Anfuni refused until Li Ziran woke up.
• Anfuni asked Goni whether Li Ziran’s Soul Fragment could reveal where he had hidden his bodies, and Goni proposed that Ke’er enter his soul.
• Goni taught Ke’er how to perform Origin Collision, withholding the risk that she might be absorbed into Li Ziran’s soul.
• Ke’er remained motionless as time passed, then opened her eyes and said Li Ziran’s old robots were hidden in the Abyss near the two Devouring Serpents.
• Ke’er showed contempt and indifference toward everyone, and Goni suspected Li Ziran’s soul had changed her.